..These findings offer preliminary support for cultural consistency in the neurological architecture subserving high-level mental state reasoning, as well as its differential recruitment based on cultural group membership...

..Differences in the accuracy of judgments based on targets' controllability and perceivers' awareness of cues provides insight into the processes underlying intuitive predictions and intuitive judgments...

..Study 2 established that these results were due to facial morphology and not to gender stereotypes. Thus, the morphology of male and female faces amplifies or constrains emotional signals and accordingly alters gaze perception...

The two sides of beauty: laterality and the duality of facial attractiveness

Robert G FranklinDepartment of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 3103, United StatesBrain Cogn 72:300-5. 2010

..This finding is consistent with the assertion that sexual and nonsexual preferences involve predominantly lateralized processing routes that independently contribute to what is perceived to be attractive...

Culture shapes a mesolimbic response to signals of dominance and subordination that associates with behavior

..Further, we found that the inferior frontal gyrus, critical for representing others' mental and emotional states, mediates the relationship between emotional closeness and neural responses to watching the rejection of a friend...

The reward of a good joke: neural correlates of viewing dynamic displays of stand-up comedy